There are the Nicole Richie-esq moms of the world who drink, smoke, dye their hair and eat as much sushi as they please while pregnant, and then there are the Katie Holmes-esq moms of the world, who manage not to do those things AND just happen to run a major marathon eighteen months after giving birth. Sure it helps that she didn’t exactly have to strap Suri to her back while training (one would assume, though who the hell knows with those crazy Scientologists) but still, running a marathon – especially the New York City one – is running a marathon, and it’s freaking hard! I don’t care how many other luxuries you have in life that make it easier for you – if you run a marathon, I’m going to respect the heck out of you.

Only hours after walking the red carpet at the L.A. premiere of Lions for Lambs, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes hopped an east-bound private plane headed for Manhattan, where sources confirm to OK! that Katie is planning on taking part in Sunday’s New York City Marathon.

As OK! exclusively reported several weeks ago, after months of secretly training in predawn runs in Beverly Hills and Berlin, Suri’s mom is scheduled to make her first-ever marathon run this weekend. The 28-year-old actress, who celebrates her first wedding anniversary to Tom on Nov. 18, will join thousands of other masochist runners, including cyclist Lance Armstrong, in the race that begins at the foot of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in Staten Island and works its way through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and then back to Manhattan, where everyone collapses in exhaustion in Central Park.

Assuming Katie makes it all the way, she’ll have quite a welcoming committee at the finish line, as several members of the Holmes family are flying in from Ohio to cheer her on. They’ll join her superstar hubby at the Finish Live Banquet at Tavern on the Green where they can watch the race on monitors, get updates on racers — “Go Katie!” — and be just feet away from the racers as they clock in.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I wasn’t really Katie Holmes’ biggest fan before this – what with the letting-yourself-be-brainwashed-by-Scientologists and the starring-in-Mad-Money-which-we-all-know-is-a-terrible-idea. But I have to say I think she’s pretty awesome right now. I set a goal a few weeks ago that in two years I will run half the New York City marathon. And that’s a freaking huge goal for someone who considers walking on her treadmill for half an hour pretty hardcore. Although I do wish I didn’t just put that out there for all the internet to hold me to, but there it is. So now I have extra respect for Katie Holmes – and the pain she’s about to go through. May the power of Xenu be with you.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Katie and Tom at the “Lions For Lambs” AFI Fest Premiere on Thursday. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Despite a lot of internet speculation over an unfortunately poufy dress, it appears that Katie Holmes isn’t pregnant after all. At least according to her PR rep, who I have a policy of never believing. I’m pretty sure they’re just paid to come up with a variety of ways to say “No.” If a “No comment” was given, or the always classic “We don’t comment on our clients’ personal lives” (my favorite, because what the hell do you do to earn you fee, Ms. Publicity Rep?) I would hope there was a little wiggle room and in a few months a baby would pop out. But the rep flat-out denied any pregnancy, which leaves me wondering: what the hell are TomKat going to do to stay in the spotlight now? I think it’s time for Tom to go on another Scientology rant. I think this time, he should choose… vegetables. They’re pseudoscience, and they’re bad for you! Anyway, here’s the official denial of another impending TomKitten.

Katie Holmes is the latest victim of the poufy dress pregnancy scare. She sent bloggers buzzing when she wore a high-volume Balenciaga gown at a Berlin airport October 13.

But a rep for the actress, 28, tells Usmagazine.com: “She is not pregnant.” Still, a family insider tells the latest issue of Us, “Katie told me she wants another child with [husband Tom Cruise].

“She talks about it a lot. But I do not know when exactly they plan to have another baby.” For the time being, she has her hands full with her 18-month-old daughter. “Katie treats Suri like her best girlfriend,” a source close to the family tells Us. “Suri is the center of it all.”

[From Us Magazine]

She treats a two year old like her best girlfriend? I don’t know about Katie, but I talk about some pretty inappropriate stuff with my best girlfriend – I doubt I’d tell my two year old how that guy I was dating turned out to be a total jerk. But it’s probably a good idea that Suri finds that out now, since Katie’s boyfriends are likely to pop up in her life from time to time. Oops! Did I say that? I would never accuse Katie Holmes of being Tom Cruise’s beard. That’s a lawsuit right there, is what that is. Either way, I find that comment kind of curious. Does your best girlfriend eat Gerber Graduates? I think not.

Picture note by Jaybird: Header image of Katie in the dress that made everyone speculate she was pregnant on October 13th. Probably not a good idea to wear it again. Splash Photos: Images thanks to Splash Photos.

Tom Cruise is laying out plans to build a huge underground bunker at his Telluride, Colorado estate. It will have a state of the art air purification system and will be large enough with enough equipment and supplies for at least ten people to survive for years. That’s not crazy or anything.

Devout Scientologist Tom Cruise plans to build a $10 million bunker under his Telluride, Colorado, mansion, a source tells Star! Equipped with a high tech air-purifying system, “it’s a self-contained underground system where up to 10 people can survice for years.” Apparently, Scientologists believe that the evil deposed galatic [sic] ruler Xenu is set to attack Earth, and they’ll need a safe place to survive.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 1, 2007]

According to the drug-fueled ramblings of Scientology’s founder, L Ron Hubbard, there was a big attack 75 million years ago in which this Xenu guy made billions of people line up by volcanoes and terminated them with hydrogen bombs. All of our problems stem from this one incident, claim Scientologists, and our memories and psychological problems are made up of the fractured souls of the people who were killed. We would all have god-like knowledge and ability if only we could free ourselves of the trauma of that event. This is something that Scientologists are brainwashed to believe they have achieved once they surrender enough time, money, common sense and free will. Only when they reach the highest level of the cult, or Operating Thetan 3, are Scientologists told the story about the volcano genocide, but thanks to the wonder of the Internet you get it for free.

I wasn’t able to dig up much about Scientology’s teachings on the end of the world, and maybe you can help shed some light onto this matter. According to Wikipedia, Xenu is supposedly trapped in an alternate universe forever, kind of like those three villains stuck under glass and floating in space in the Superman movie. He could come back though, and only the super rich deluded folks like Cruise and Travolta will be prepared.

Concern for the survival of one’s family in the event of a nuclear attack or massive world war is only natural, and maybe if I had a quarter of a billion dollars I would consider setting up a giant underground bunker too. I really doubt it though. The only preparations I made on December 31, 1999 were getting an outfit and having my nails done for a New Year’s party. Stockpiling water and supplies for the millennium just wasn’t high on my to-do list.

Maybe if Cruise could pop some lithium every day he wouldn’t be so worried about the end of the world. Along with providing ease of mind and more stable moods, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper, too. L Ron Hubbard must have realized that prescription medication would help his most devoted followers figure out what bullshit he was preaching, so he decided to make psychiatrists enemy number one. The guy was crazy like a fox.

In other Tom Cruise news, he has been given permission by the German government to film scenes for his Nazi hero movie Valkyrie at the Bendlerblock building, a World War II historic site. The German government was initially reluctant to grant permission to film there due to concern for the preservation of the site. A minute of silence was observed at the location this weekend before filming began.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are shown leaving an Italian restaurant in Berlin on Thursday. Thanks to WENN for these pictures. All details about Scientology from Operation Clambake and Wikipedia.

People magazine has released their annual best dressed list, ahead of the best dressed issue of their magazine. Then again, with a stylist in tow it’s easy to gain best dressed kudos, so the worst dressed is probably more interesting! I wish that list was longer.

Best Dressed 2007

Beyoncé Knowles – The Showstopper
Cameron Diaz – The Legs
Katie Holmes – The Classic
Penélope Cruz - The Continental
Jessica Biel – The All-American
Drew Barrymore – The Chameleon
Jennifer Lopez – The Glamour Girl
Reese Witherspoon – The Celeb Next Door
Gwen Stefani – The Trendsetter
Ali Larter – The Newcomer

Best Dressed Men

David Beckham
George Clooney
Johnny Depp
Terrence Howard
Brad Pitt

Best Dressed Couples

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt
Gabriel Aubry & Halle Berry
Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale
Tony Parker & Eva Longoria

World’s Worst Dresser

Eva Green

Most Shocking Fashion Moments

Britney Spears shaves her head
Sanjaya Malakar’s faux-hawk
Kidnapped British sailors in oversized Iranian suits
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s cleavage
Naomi Campbell’s dress-up for community service
Paris Hilton’s get-out-of-jail get-up

Just Plain Wrong

Sienna Miller in black tights
Avril Lavigne’s combat boots & pink frilly dress

New York Daily News

Why have best dressed men lists? Even the most stylish man just tends to walk around in either a tuxedo or a t-shirt. There’s not much complicated about men’s dressing, why not have best punk rocker style for say, Pete Wentz? Or Best male use of make up, which would probably also be won by Pete Wentz.

I’m also confused about the criteria: Avril Lavinge’s lace dress and combat boots is a style no-no, but Lily Allen’s signature look is a dress and hi-top sneakers (Lily is mentioned in a British best dressed section of the magazine). Aren’t these just different versions of the same look? And none of the women on the best dressed list are cleavage shy, but it’s not okay for Hilary Clinton to show off her assets?

World’s Worst Dresser Eva Green is shown at the Casino Royale world premiere on 11/14/06 and the BAFTA awards on 2/11/07. (PRPhotos)

World’s Best Dressed Woman Beyonce Knowles is shown at the VMAs, at the opening of Jay-Z’s 40-40 club in Vegas on 9/6/07 and at the launch of Emporio Armani Diamonds Fragrance on 8/16/07. (PRPhotos)

Just Plain Wrong Sienna Miller in black tights at the Factory Girl UK premiere on 3/13/07 and at the 2006 Costume Institute Gala on 5/1/06. (PRPhotos)

Just Plain Wrong Avril Lavigne in a pink dress with combat boots at her CD release party in April. (via Faded Youth)

Suri Cruise is the kind of toddler that’s so cute, she makes child-haters want to have babies. Suri’s done a good job of stealing the attention away from her parents, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. Of course she’s got more personality than either of Xenu’s golden children – and unlike her father, when Suri jumps up and down on a couch, it’s cute, not creepy. Apparently others have taken notice, and she’s been offered a modeling gig by the Baby Gap. That would be just about the cutest thing ever.

“Is Tom and Katie’s baby Suri Cruise set to model? There is a buzz already that she was the model for the baby that is on the Downy box. The buzz earlier was this, ‘Look, it’s just an innocent box of Downy fabric softener. But when you look closer, doesn’t the Downy baby kind of look like Suri Cruise?’

”A rep for Downy says no way but it appears that the Baby Gap has noticed according to a report from Life & Style Weekly. But with their trip to Berlin it’s apparent that the adorable tot is starting to get more attention than her parents Tom Cruise and the fabulous Katie Holmes.

“An insider says Baby Gap even asked Tom and Katie if Suri could star in a campaign. So - is baby Suri going Hollywood? No way, the parents have declined the offer.”

[From the National Ledger]

That sucks! I mean, I respect your decision as good parents. I’m sorry, but that little kid is so cute it’s not fair to keep her from the public. People speculate over whether she’s really genetically Tom Cruise’s child (I think she’s starting to look like him in the eyes, so I’m going to say yes) and whether he and Katie really conceived Suri naturally or if she’s a test tube baby. I couldn’t care less, wherever that baby came from, I want to order up half a dozen. If there’s a vial of her sitting in a lab somewhere, I think it should be made available to the general population.

In news that doesn’t make me sound quite so creepy, Tom and Katie took Suri to the Berlin Zoo this weekend. Tom is looking a little better lately (less bloated)… Katie is looking a little worse, but being around Tom Cruise all the time has got to wear on a girl.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Suri with Tom and Katie at the Berlin Zoo on August 11th. The beach photos are old, but they’re so cute I had to post them. Images thanks to WENN.

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise were turned away from a St. Tropez nightclub on Friday, with owners saying that the VIP area was full. It was full - with P Diddy and the Royal family of Dubai spending money like water.

The actor, 45, and wife Katie Holmes, 28, were left fuming after being turned away from a St Tropez nightclub in front of dozens of onlookers.

And to add to the humiliation, P Diddy WAS allowed in to party away at the Caves Du Roi club in the exclusive Byblos Hotel.
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Tom and Katie turned up at the super-hip venue on Friday at 11pm.

While Katie looked suitably sexy in a little black number, Tom drew a few unflattering gasps in his naff blue jumper. Mmm, not a good start mate.

The bouncers then refused them entry.

Nonetheless, the actor’s security started begging: “Are you serious? It’s Tom Cruise.” But the heavies were having none of it, telling Tom’s people: “Non, non, non!”

A club source told us: “The VIP area was full and the management weren’t willing to move the guests already there to make room for Tom.

“It wouldn’t have been fair - they’d spent a fortune.”

Tom turned on his heel and walked off with Katie scampering after him.

Last night a hotel spokeswoman confirmed they turned them away as the club was “full”. She added: “It would have been dangerous to allow any more people in - whoever they were.”

[From The Mirror]

They then went to a club called The VIP Room, and Cruise was said to have “looked out of place” at the club throbbing with house music. Katie and Tom left early and didn’t drink much of the Dom Perignon they ordered.

Back at the club where TomKat was denied entry, the Caves Du Roi at the Byblos Hotel, Diddy was partying up a storm with the Dubai royal family. According to The Mirror they were drinking $40,000 bottles of Methuselah Cristal. The bottle is 7 liters, and when guests order it at the Byblos Hotel club they dim the lights and serve it on a silver tray adorned with sparklers. Guess a measly bottle of Dom doesn’t really measure up.

In other “Tom Cruise is a dork” news, Cruise is said to tease new LA resident Victoria Beckham about her British accent and slang. He has started using words like “bloody”, “blimey” and “chaps.” Maybe in turn Posh will call everything “amazing.”

Here are Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes on the night in question. If Cruise wasn’t famous, do you think he’d have a chance getting into an exclusive club in a tight button up shirt like that?

Thanks to Splash News for these pictures.

Tom and Katie sure looked happy at Jada Pinkett Smith’s party on 2/9, but recent tabloids have them fighting over various issues related to Katie’s newfound independence.

Last week we reported that In Touch was calling her a nag, and the February 12 issue of Star claims that Tom is livid over the fact that Katie wants to take baby Suri on a three month film shoot with her.

They also claim Tom wants another baby right away, but that Katie is putting him off in favor of trying to get her career back on track. Tom is even trying to control Katie’s career and is rejecting potential roles for her, but Katie isn’t having that:

Sources say Katie, 28, is coming out of her shell and asserting herself. And after more than a year on hiatus, she’s even returning to work, having just joined Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah in signing up for the crime caper Mad Money, which starts filming in Shreveport, LA, this spring. Naturally, she wants to bring Suri with her, but Tom has other ideas. “Tom is very angry about that,” says the source. Why? [Tom] will be busy running a movie studio, United Artists, back in L.A. and can’t afford to spend much time in Louisiana…

“He’s going to make sure Katie has a security force and Scientology minders with her,” says the source. “He’ll visit Louisiana some, but when he’s not there he’s going to be sure he has eyes and ears listening in for him!” (The couple’s rep denies this story.

Where Suri will be living this spring isn’t the only issue the couple is fighting over. For the last few months, Katie’s been reading scripts, but, says another insider, “Tom rejected everything! They were either not good enough or not hit-movie matieral.”

[From Star magazine print edition, February 12, 2007]

This could be true that Tom and Katie are fighting over her career and where Suri will stay, but they seem to be keeping up appearances well as usual. If Katie is breaking out of her brainwashed shell, there are bound to be some problems between them.

One thing Tom is no longer in control of is his young bride’s height. CityRag points out that Katie no longer appears shorter than Tom like in their wedding pictures, and seems to be wearing heels in these latest candids.

Thanks to KatieHolmes.com for these pics and Sammie’s Effluvia for the story.

Britian’s unreliable Sun is reporting that Victoria Beckham has nixed the idea of her family converting to the Scientology cult at Tom Cruise’s urging. They say that her husband, footballer David Beckham, is more impressionable and has been considering it after having some heart-to-heart conversations with the pint-sized actor, but that Victoria isn’t about to waste her money on anything other than fashion:

TOM CRUISE is trying to recruit the Beckhams to the Scientology cult — but Victoria has told him: “Hands off our cash”.

The Hollywood superstar is obsessed with the wacky religion and believes David would benefit from joining.

But Victoria, 32, has ruled it out — partly because members have to make large, regular cash donations. Last week David admitted he spent “hours” on the phone to Tom, 44, before quitting Real Madrid for LA Galaxy.

There’s another report that David Beckham was so distraught over leaving Madrid for LA-based soccer team Galaxy that he needed ice packs to bring down the puffiness of his eyes from constant crying. He is now said to be content with his decision and excited about the move.

Victoria has gushed that she loves the fashion in Hollywood and that she’s excited to hobnob with the stars.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are throwing a big welcome party for the Beckhams this summer. Guests are said to include Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Lopez.

David is still in Madrid playing out his contract with Real Madrid, and will join his family in the states to play for LA Galaxy starting this summer.

Posh and Becks have enrolled their oldest child, Brooklyn, seven, in the Brentwood private day school in Bel-Air, where he will start school in August.

Here are pictures of Victoria and Katie Holmes out to dinner at The Ivy on 1/16. Tom dropped the two off and then left them to pick at their food.

Victoria is still wearing that god-awful Giambattista Valli belt that Chic Mommy made fun of earlier.

Commentors here note that it looks like Katie had some work done on her face. I don’t see it, but it could be the case. Pictures from KatieHolmes.com

Tom Cruise’s rep is kept busy denying frequent rumors about the cult-loving couple. He says “To our knowledge, Katie is not pregnant.”

Mollygood spotted a pretty pominent bump on Katie while she was out shopping wirh Cruise’s daughter. She’s either pregnant or has poor taste in form-fitting clothing.

Meanwhile there was this crazy rumor that Victoria Beckham was being tipped to play an alien bride in a big screen adaptation of the Scientology belief system called “The Thetan.” Cruises reps have denied this is true, and the story is obviously false on first reading:

Victoria Beckham is reportedly set to star in Tom Cruise’s new Scientology film. The Spice Girl has apparently been lined up to play an alien bride in The Thetan - based on the bizarre sci-fi cult, which believes in alien life forms.

Victoria is said to be “thrilled” about getting her big Hollywood break. A source told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper: “Victoria is really hoping to make a go of it in Hollywood. This could be the perfect start for her, with good pal Tom Cruise in charge.”

The 32-year-old - who made her first attempt at acting in the 1997 Spice Girls movie Spice World - will play the bride of an alien leader called a thetan, which Scientologists claim is an immortal spiritual being, present in all humans.

Cruise - who is bankrolling the project himself after it was rejected by all the major film studios - is said to have picked Victoria for the role after being impressed by her “comic
genius”

Commentor Sprynkles points out on the Gossip Rocks bulletin board that the Scientologists go to great lengths to keep their belief system private. They charge quite a bit of money before they reveal to inductees their belief that thetans, or the ghosts of people killed in a giant volcano, haunt all of us, causing our psychological problems. They would never make a movie like this, but it’s quite a funny thought.

Katie Holmes, who may or may not be pregnant, had her 28th birthday on Monday.

Tom Cruise was photographed looking at a new $380k plane in LA. There’s no work whether he bought it. Pictures from FlynetOnline.

It turns out that rumor that the head of Scientology accompanied Tom and Katie on their honeymoon in the Maldives was untrue, because the Scientologists denied it and we should just take them at their word. Now there’s news that Tom and Katie are going to follow up their second wedding party with yet another honeymoon. Their first honeymoon on a tugboat yacht was cut short due to bad weather. This time they’re said to be going alone to Tahiti and leaving little Suri at home.

Tom & Katie are indeed planning a second honeymoon for the two of them only … Suri will stay with the family in the US as they head to a romantic & exotic location.
Rumor has it that the couple have booked a holiday in Tahiti, at the $15000 a night Le Taha’a Private Island and Spa.
Hmm … This will definitely be a real honeymoon!

I’m not sure this is true, because they were initially said to be going to Tahiti on their honeymoon, and only a few sources are reporting that they’re planning a second honeymoon there. They were in Tahiti back in February when Katie was pregnant.

Their stateside wedding party will take place this Saturday at the malibu estate of Tom’s business partner. Tom, Katie, Victoria Backham, J.Lo and Marc Anthony were seen out to dinner at a steakhouse last night in what looked like a second-wedding party rehearsal dinner. Pictures from Gossip Rocks.